Growth Lack Encourage Personal Population Noun Bre ɡrəʊθ

• lack of water will stunt the plant's growth.
• remove dead leaves to encourage new growth.
• a concern with personal (= mental and emotional) growth and development
• growth hormones (= designed to make somebody/something grow faster)

growth

1. the process of growing physically, mentally or emotionally
• Lack of water will stunt the plant's growth.
• Remove dead leaves to encourage new growth.
• a concern with personal (= mental and emotional) growth and development
• growth hormones (= designed to make somebody/something grow faster)
2. an increase in the size, amount or degree of something
• population growth
• the rapid growth in violent crime
• His book describes the growth of nationalism in Germany before the Second World War.
3. an increase in economic activity
• a disappointing year of little growth in Britain and America
• policies aimed at sustaining economic growth
• an annual growth rate of 10%
• a growth area/industry
4. a lump caused by a disease that forms on or inside a person, an animal or a plant
• a malignant/cancerous growth
5. something that has grown
• The forest's dense growth provides nesting places for a wide variety of birds.
• several days’ growth of beard
• Prune the shrub heavily now and fresh green growths should appear in March and April.

Extra Examples

• Communications technology has proved to be a growth area.
• Give the plants a good pruning to encourage growth.
• He had a cancerous growth on his lung.
• Lack of food had stunted his growth.
• The country is experiencing a period of high growth.
• The economy enjoyed the highest growth rate in Asia.
• The factory has achieved a steady growth in output.
• There was a rapid growth in the numbers of private cars.
• a vicious circle of low growth and low productivity
• new measures to control the growth of traffic on the roads
• real GDP growth
• the excessive growth of algae in rivers
• the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1990s
• the exponential growth in world population
• Recent years have seen a huge growth of interest in alternative medicine
• The growth in average earnings has remained constant.
• The report links population growth with rural poverty.